The Best Quotes of All Time

It’s been three years since we shared our original list of some of the best quotes of all time, and we felt it was a good time for an update. We’ve added another 25 quotes for you. But these aren’t just any quotes.

These are quotes designed to inspire. They’re motivational quotes that will hopefully get you thinking about your life, your work, or your dreams and how you can make these things better.

I know quotes researched online often come in slightly different variations, so if you’ve heard another version of one of these, please share it with us in the comments. Or even better, why not share some of your own favorite inspirational and motivational quotes?

Here are our 25 new additions for our list of the best quotes of all time, including some submitted by our readers in response to the original list of best quotes, which you can still find below.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

– Les Brown

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

– Napoleon Hill

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

– Colin R. Davis

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

– Mark Twain

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

– Stephen R. Covey

Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don’t want to do it.

– Dr. Phil

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.

– Robert Frost

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

– Henry David Thoreau

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.

– Zig Ziglar

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

– W. Clement Stone

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

– Mark Twain

The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

-Vince Lombardi

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.

– Theodore Roosevelt

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self control — these three alone lead to power.

– Alfred, Lord Tennyson

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

– Thomas Jefferson

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

– Thomas Edison

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

– Walt Disney

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

– Bill Cosby

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.

– Steve Jobs

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

– Carl Bard

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Below you can find our original article (published on October 5, 2010) and our picks for some of the best quotes of all time in a variety of different categories.

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What are the best quotes of all time for you? Have you ever heard a simple line that inspired you to make a major change in your life? Has a quote ever changed your mind on an important issue or made you think about something in a different way? Do you just enjoy reading daily quotes, seeking a smile or a bit of motivation?

Everyone’s choices for the best quotes of all time will vary based on what influences them. But we’ve looked through hundreds of quotes and picked some of the best quotes of all time across several different categories to share with you here today. Enjoy them below, and if another quote didn’t make the list but you absolutely love it, please share it with us in the comments.

Please note: Categories are listed alphabetically, and within each category individual quotes are in no particular order. Some quotes have been shared with multiple versions on the Web with slight variations in each. If we ran into these situations, we chose the variation that appeared to be most commonly presented. Also, some quotes could technically fall under multiple categories. In those cases they were placed under the one we felt was most relevant at the time.

Age

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on age:

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

– Lucille Ball

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

– Henry Ford

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

– George Bernard Shaw

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

– Mark Twain

No one is so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

– Henry David Thoreau

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

– Victor Hugo

The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

– Oscar Wilde

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

– Benjamin Franklin

Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you.

– Ogden Nash

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

– Bob Hope

Anger

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on anger:

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

– Lee Iacocca

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

– Maya Angelou

He who angers you conquers you.

– Elizabeth Kenny

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

– Mohandas Gandhi

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

– Mark Twain

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

– William Congreve

You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.

– Buddha

Anyone can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time and for the right purpose and in the right way – that is not within everyone’s power and that is not easy.

– Aristotle

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on education:

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

– Aristotle

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.

– Pete Seeger

The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.

– Socrates

To repeat what others have said requires education. To challenge it requires brains.

– Marry Pettibone Poole

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

– Alec Bourne

Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

– Charles J. Sykes (although often attributed to Bill Gates as a result of a viral email)

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

– Albert Einstein

Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.

– Wu Ting-Fang

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

– Plato

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

– Malcolm Forbes

Equality

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on equality:

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

– Aristotle

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions. It only guarantees equality of opportunity.

– Irving Kristol

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

– Steven Pinker

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

– George Orwell

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

– Mohandas Gandhi

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

– Albert Einstein

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.

– Malcolm X

The sole equality on earth is death.

– Philip James Bailey

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

– William Faulkner

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

– Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

Family

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on family:

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.

– Lee Iacocca

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

– George Burns

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

– George Bernard Shaw

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who’ve never had any.

– Bill Cosby

Family isn’t about whose blood you have. It’s about who you care about.

– Trey Parker and Matt Stone

All happy families resemble one another. Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

– Leo Tolstoy

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

– Jane Howard

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

– Desmond Tutu

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

– Pope John Paul II

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

– George Bernard Shaw

Friendship

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on friends:

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.

– Albert Camus

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

– Aristotle

Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you.

– Elbert Hubbard

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

– Dale Carnegie

True friends stab you in the front.

– Oscar Wilde

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

– Helen Keller

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

– Abraham Lincoln

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value. Rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

– C. S. Lewis

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.

– William Butler Yeats

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

– George Eliot

Happiness

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on happiness:

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

– Abraham Lincoln

Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer somebody else up.

– Mark Twain

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

– Thomas Jefferson

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

– Dalai Lama

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

– Robert Frost

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

– Storm Jameson

The U.S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on men and women:

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.

– Robert Frost

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.

– Albert Einstein

Men are what their mothers made them.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

– Margaret Fuller

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

– Plato

For most of history, ‘Anonymous’ was a woman.

– Virginia Woolf

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

– Oscar Wilde

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

– Will Rogers

Women don’t want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think – in a deeper voice.

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on money:

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

– Mark Twain

I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.

– Warren Buffet

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

– Robert Frost

Money won’t create success. The freedom to make it will.

– Nelson Mandela

Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.

– Zig Ziglar

Time is money.

– Benjamin Franklin

If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.

– Katherine Hepburn

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

– Logan Pearsall Smith

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

– Edith Wharton

I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself – in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on music:

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

– Ed Gardner

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

– Robert Fripp

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

– Plato

Life is one grand, sweet song so start the music.

– Ronald Reagan

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

– Bill Cosby

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

– Samuel Johnson

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

– Lao Tzu

I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.

– Elvis Presley

Music is a safe kind of high.

– Jimi Hendrix

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on politics:

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

– Plato

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

– Thomas Jefferson

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

– Charles De Gaulle

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.

– Eugene McCarthy

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

– Winston Churchill

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

– H.L. Mencken

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

– John Adams

Politics have no relation to morals.

– Niccolo Machiavelli

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

– John Kenneth Galbraith

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on science:

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

– Bertrand Russell

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

– George Bernard Shaw

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

– Charles Darwin

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

– Hippocrates

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

– Isaac Asimov

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

– Sir William Bragg

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

– Herbert Hoover

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

– Lewis Mumford

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

– Marie Curie

Science is simply common sense at its best. That is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on sports:

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

– Heywood Broun

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

– George Orwell

We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.

– Vince Lombardi

I went to a fight last night and a hockey game broke out.

– Rodney Dangerfield

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

– George F. Will

You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.

– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

– Vince Lombardi

Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.

– Anthony Starr

The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.

– Steve Garvey

The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it’s the opposition.

– Nick Seitz

Success

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on success:

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

– Henry Ford

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

– Winston Churchill

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

– Bill Cosby

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

– Woody Allen

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

– Benjamin Franklin

You can do anything, but not everything.

– David Allen

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.

– Aristotle

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.

– Sven Goran Eriksson

Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

– Thomas Edison

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

– Maya Angelou

War

Here are some of our top picks for the best quotes of all time on war:

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

– Albert Einstein

May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.

– George Patton

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

– Jeannette Rankin

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

– Benjamin Franklin

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless whether the mad destruction is brought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?

– Mahatma Gandhi

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

– Dwight Eisenhower

It is well that war is so terrible – otherwise we would grow too fond of it.

– Robert E. Lee

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

– Thomas Mann

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?

– Victor Hugo

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

– George Washington

Other Quotes

While reviewing quotes there were some favorites that didn’t quite fit within the categories above, but they were still considered worth including as some of the best quotes of all time. Here are those quotes:

That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.

– Friedrich Nietzche

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.

– Henry Ford

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems.

– Frank Wilczek

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

– Benjamin Franklin

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

– William Arthur Ward

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

– Thomas Edison

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.

– Voltaire

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time. But you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.

– Abraham Lincoln

Do you have favorite quotes of your own that would fall within your list of the best quotes of all time? Remember, different quotes will touch and inspire different people in different ways. Your favorite quote might become a favorite of other readers as well. Please leave a comment below and share your favorite quotes with the rest of us.

Update: We have made a page on Facebook called “Best Quotes of the Day” and a website by the same name BQOTD.com – We are going to be posting some of the best quotes there to cheer you up every day. Like that page and get connected!

The Best Quotes of All Time was last modified: December 4th, 2016 by Jennifer Mattern

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Technology is an extension of the progressive revelation of God, given to man as much as he is willing and able to receive it. Without it, The Model A Ford would not have developed into the Apollo and other spaceships today. When this earth becomes too crowded, we are forced to move off the planet. Without the tech, we would be left here to crush to death. Now that is sorrow! The Malthusian theory of migration basically says that when resources become scarce, the people there on that land find ways to move to other lands. We have done that on this earth and now have no where else to move if we take the Copernican limited view that we are at the center of the universe and waiting for God to rescue us to the top of a three-storied universe. “Universe” comes from two words: “Uni” which means “One” and “Verse” which means “Logos” or “Word”. It has no beginning and no end. And it is a gift to mankind to develop forever. As Jesus said: “Seek and ye shall find….all these things will be yours as well.”

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever”

“Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.”

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.”

“The only source of knowledge is experience.”

“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising”

“There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see”

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning”

“You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone”

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else”

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever”

“Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.”

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.”

“The only source of knowledge is experience.”

“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising”

“There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see”

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning”

“You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone”

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else”

“rules are for fools and fools are for rules!” -Sarah Blackwood

“I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.” – Dudley Field Malone

Einstein did not say “If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts”, as a quick check on Wikiquote would have told you. The remark is rather silly so it is unfair to ascribe it to Einstein whom I doubt believed it

Nor did Einstein say “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

Another rather silly remark which flies in the face of Einstein’s beliefs and theories. One thing he did say was “Many things which go under my name are badly translated from the German or are invented by other people”.

I must say it would have been nice if brohuijben had had sufficient respect for his/her readers (and for the supposed authors of the quotations) that he/she had bothered to check the accuracy of these attributions. It takes about 30 seconds each.

When the English teacher was interviewed by the Principal for a job. he asked her: “Do you know how to teach English?”
She said: “I never made but one mistake in English in my life. And as I seed it, I done it!”

Here is some quotes I know:
1. Genius is one percent, being persistance and with courage is ninetynine percent.
2. People who does the same thing over and over again becomes a professor, people who does the same thing over and over again out by heart becomes a winner.
3. There is always a hope out of the choise you made, and fear nomore and it doesn’t matter if you made the wrong choice, it matters how you make your way out of the choice which was wrong.
Enjoy! (:D)

Here is some quotes I know:
1. Genius is one percent, being persistance and with courage is ninetynine percent.
2. People who does the same thing over and over again becomes a professor, people who does the same thing over and over again out by heart becomes a winner.
3. There is always a hope out of the choise you made, and fear nomore and it doesn’t matter if you made the wrong choice, it matters how you make your way out of the choice which was wrong.
Enjoy! (:D)

“One of the greatest things a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
Howard W Hunter (1907-1995), American lawyer and Latter-day Saint

“Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.”
Germaine Greer (1939- ), Australian writer and academic

“Heidegger surf-boards along on the electronic wave as triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave.”
Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980), Canadian philosopher of communication theory, The Gutenberg galaxy (1962)

“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”
Giuseppe di Lampedusa (1896-1957), The leopard, translated Archibald Colquhoun

I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they’ve got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that’s malnutrition, too.
Dick Gregory

Fifty Years and Still Fighting
One morning, my wife and I, with loving arms around each other, were walking toward the front of a large discount store. On the way, I remarked,
“See, Connie, when we’ve been married for over fifty years, a heated argument in the morning doesn’t stop us from hugging each other by noon.”
“Yes, Dear”, she replied. “Sometimes Alzheimer’s can be a wonderful thing!”

The reason why evil still flourishes in our midst is that good men and good women get sick and tired of being good before bad men and bad women get sick and tired of being bad – Former Philippine Senator Jovito Salonga